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CHARLES F. ADAMS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SHERMAN S. JEWETT & (10., OF SAME PLACE.

VGAIS-BURNING COOKING STOVE OR RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nea /2,842, dated April 12, 1892.

Application filed March 9, 1891. Serial No. 384,286. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. ADAMS, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Gas-Burning Cooking Stoves or Ranges, of which the following is a speci-- lation to these apartments that the heat de-L veloped by the burning fuel will be economi-' cally utilized.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I have illustrated one form of it in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gasburning cooking stove or range containing my invention, part of the outside casing and top plate being broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view partly broken away. Fig. 3 is a central transverse section of the range. Fig. 4 is a top plan View part of the top plate being broken away. Fig. 5 is a View of the end opposite to that shown in Fig. 2, parts being broken away. Fig. '6 is a plan view of the top flueplate.

The form of stove which I have chosen to show as embodying my invention has a sixhole top plate 1. Below four of the holes 2 of this top plate are arranged the four circular burners 4, each having an independent gassupply pipe 5. Directly under the other two holes 3 is arranged aflat burner 6, perforated on its lower side, so that the flame is thrown downward. This burner is used for broiling and toasting, being situated above the broilercompartment 21, and, being directly below the top plate of the stove, the products of com bustion therefrom pass in contact with the under side of this plate on their way to the escape-flue and thus serve to heat it.

7 designates the baking-oven, and 8 the flue-plate 22, from which flue 23 they go through the opening 25 in the plate 22 to the escape flue or pipe 12. This top fine-plate serves to prevent the products of combustion from the lower burners from passing into the space directly under the top plate 1, where they would interfere with the combustion at theburners 4, and, further, would tend to cause fumes to escape into the room.

13 represents a compartment in the lower part of the range, opposite the roaster 8, wherein are arranged a gas-burner 14, and a coil of pipes 15. which form a hot-water generator, and which may be connected at either end or side with a hot-water-storage tank or a circulating heating system.

The opening 16 for the escape of the products of combustion from the burner 14 is preferably through the top wall of the compartment 13 and along its inner portion, leadingv into a horizontal flue 17 arranged between the top of. the water-heating compartment 13 and the warming-oven 18. The coil or nest of pipes 15 is arranged in a series extending diagonally across the compartment 13 from a position over the burn er 14 upward and inward toward the opening 16. This arrange ment places the pipes in the path of the products of combustion from the burner 14, and thus utilizes the heat therefrom to its fullest extent. It will be evident that the escape-flue 16 might be arranged in the upper outer corner of the compartment 13 and lead directly into the fine 19, in which case the series of pipes 15 would incline or extend diagonally outward instead of inward.

The warming-oven 18 is surrounded by the flues 17, 19, and 20, which take the products of combustion from the water-heating burner and are arranged, respectively, below, at the outer side, and above the oven, and the celltral flue 11, which, as has been described, takes the PI'0 C111?t3 of combustion from the burners 9 and 1s sltuated between the bakingoven and the inner side of the Warming-oven.

The flue 20 leads into the flue 11 end is below the, said compajr'tment rat or near one side thereof and the said cejl Qf pipes being ar ranged above the burner and extending as a.

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